The Illustrated Man

The Martian Chronicles

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Ray Bradbury
• Narrated By Mark Boyett

Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor - of crystal pillars and fossil seas - where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn - first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars...and then is conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race.

I Sing the Body Electric!: And Other Stories

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Ray Bradbury
• Narrated By Dick Hill

The mind of Ray Bradbury is a wonder-filled carnival of delight and terror that stretches from the verdant Irish countryside to the coldest reaches of outer space. Yet all his work is united by one common thread: a vivid and profound understanding of the vast set of emotions that bring strength and mythic resonance to our frail species. Bradbury characters may find themselves anywhere - and anywhen.

The Golden Apples of the Sun: And Other Stories

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Ray Bradbury
• Narrated By Michael Prichard

Ray Bradbury is a modern cultural treasure. His disarming simplicity of style underlies a towering body of work unmatched in metaphorical power by any other American storyteller. And here are 32 of his most famous tales - prime examples of the poignant and mysterious poetry that Bradbury uniquely uncovers in the depths of the human soul, the otherwordly portraits that spring from the canvas of one of the century's great men of imagination.

Dandelion Wine: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs)
• By Ray Bradbury
• Narrated By Paul Michael Garcia
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Ray Bradbury’s moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author’s most deeply personal work, a semiautobiographical recollection of a magical small-town summer in 1928.

Fahrenheit 451

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 1 min)
• By Ray Bradbury
• Narrated By Tim Robbins
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Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."

The Halloween Tree

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Ray Bradbury
• Narrated By Bronson Pinchot

On a Halloween night, eight boys are led on an incredible journey into the past by the mysterious “spirit” Moundshroud. Riding a dark autumn wind from ancient Egypt to the land of the Celtic druids, from Mexico to a cathedral in Paris, they will witness the haunting beginnings of the holiday called Halloween.

Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles: A Radio Dramatization

• ORIGINAL (5 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Ray Bradbury
• Narrated By The Colonial Radio Players

The people of Earth are preparing for war - a war that could potentially destroy the planet. Explorers are sent to Mars to find a new place for humans to colonize. Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor, where a fine dust settles on the great empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn - first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars... and then is conquered by it.

The Gods Themselves

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Isaac Asimov
• Narrated By Scott Brick
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Only a few know the terrifying truth - an outcast Earth scientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, a lunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilation of the Sun... They know the truth - but who will listen? They have foreseen the cost of abundant energy - but who will believe?These few beings, human and alien, hold the key to the Earth's survival.

1984: New Classic Edition

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 26 mins)
• By George Orwell
• Narrated By Simon Prebble
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George Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, including the Thought Police - a world in which news is manufactured according to the authorities' will and people live tepid lives by rote. Winston Smith, a hero with no heroic qualities, longs only for truth and decency. But living in a social system in which privacy does not exist and where those with unorthodox ideas are brainwashed or put to death, he knows there is no hope for him.

Brave New World

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Aldous Huxley
• Narrated By Michael York
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When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.

Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media: has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 A.F. (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.

Twinborn Trilogy Collection

• UNABRIDGED (66 hrs and 27 mins)
• By J.S. Morin
• Narrated By Shawn Compton

Kyrus Hinterdale is about to get drawn into a conflict. His discovery that the world in his dreams is real, and that his twin within that world dreams of him, sets him off on a quest of self-discovery that could reshape two worlds. He is not alone with this special vision. Others like him had been at it far longer, working secret plots and stealing secrets from one world to take advantage in the other. Caught in the middle of an ancient conflict, Kyrus and his twin, Brannis, must discover who can be trusted, who must be watched, and who is out to kill them.

Necronomicon

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 1 min)
• By H. P. Lovecraft
• Narrated By Paul Michael Garcia, Bronson Pinchot, Stephen R. Thorne, and others

Originally written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and '30s, H. P. Lovecraft's astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction, and cosmic terror that are as powerful today as they were when first published. This tome brings together all of Lovecraft's harrowing stories, including the complete Cthulhu Mythos cycle, just the way they were when first released.

Stranger in a Strange Land

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Robert A. Heinlein
• Narrated By Christopher Hurt
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Stranger in a Strange Land tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, an earthling born and educated on Mars, who arrives on Earth with superhuman powers and a total ignorance of the mores of man. Smith is destined to become a freak, a media commodity, a scam artist, a searcher, and finally, a messiah.

The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke

• UNABRIDGED (51 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Arthur C. Clarke
• Narrated By Ray Porter, Jonathan Davis, Ralph Lister

From early work like "Rescue Party" and "The Lion of Comarre", through classic stories including "The Star", "Earthlight", "The Nine Billion Names of God", and "The Sentinel" (kernel of the later novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey), all the way to later work like "A Meeting with Medusa" and "The Hammer of God", this comprehensive short story collection encapsulates one of the great science fiction careers of all time.

Norse Mythology

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Neil Gaiman
• Narrated By Neil Gaiman
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Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he turns his attention back to the source, presenting a bravura rendition of the great northern tales. In Norse Mythology, Gaiman fashions primeval stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds; delves into the exploits of the deities, dwarves, and giants; and culminates in Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods and the rebirth of a new time and people.

Homesick for Another World: Stories

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Ottessa Moshfegh
• Narrated By Alyssa Bresnahan, Richard Poe
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There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet in one way or another; they all yearn for connection and betterment, though each in very different ways, but they are often tripped up by their own baser impulses and existential insecurities.

Animal Farm

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 13 mins)
• By George Orwell
• Narrated By Ralph Cosham
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George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture, quoted so often that we tend to forget who wrote the original words! This must-read is also a must-listen!

Sherlock Holmes

• UNABRIDGED (62 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen Fry - introductions
• Narrated By Stephen Fry

Ever since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled and delighted millions of fans throughout the world. Now Audible is proud to present Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, read by Stephen Fry. A lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction, Fry has narrated the definitive collection of Sherlock Holmes - four novels and four collections of short stories. And, exclusively for Audible, Stephen has written and narrated eight insightful introductions, one for each title.

The Handmaid's Tale: Special Edition

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Margaret Atwood, Valerie Martin - essay
• Narrated By Claire Danes, Margaret Atwood, full cast
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After a violent coup in the United States overthrows the Constitution and ushers in a new government regime, the Republic of Gilead imposes subservient roles on all women. Offred, now a Handmaid tasked with the singular role of procreation in the childless household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost everything, even her own name.

Slaughterhouse-Five

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Kurt Vonnegut
• Narrated By James Franco
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Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).

A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Ray Bradbury
• Narrated By Scott Brick
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Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 is an enduring masterwork of twentieth-century American literature - a chilling vision of a dystopian future built on the foundations of ignorance, censorship, and brutal repression. The origins and evolution of Bradbury’s darkly magnificent tale are explored in A Pleasure to Burn, a collection of sixteen selected shorter works that prefigure the grand master’s landmark novel.

American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition (A Full Cast Production)

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Neil Gaiman
• Narrated By Ron McLarty, Daniel Oreskes, full cast
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Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana. A man no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, all he wanted was to be with Laura, the wife he deeply loved, and start a new life. But just days before his release, Laura and Shadow's best friend are killed in an accident. With his life in pieces and nothing to keep him tethered, Shadow accepts a job from a beguiling stranger he meets on the way home, an enigmatic man who calls himself Mr. Wednesday.

Faithful: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Alice Hoffman
• Narrated By Amber Tamblyn
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Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary tragedy changes her fate. Her best friend's future is destroyed in an accident while Shelby walks away with the burden of guilt. What happens when a life is turned inside out? When love is something so distant it may as well be a star in the sky? Faithful is the story of a survivor filled with emotion, from dark suffering to true happiness - a moving portrait of a young woman finding her way in the modern world.

Death Is a Lonely Business

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Ray Bradbury
• Narrated By Peter Berkrot
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Toiling away amid the looming palm trees and decaying bungalows, a struggling young writer spins fantastic stories from his fertile imagination upon his clacking typewriter. Trying not to miss his girlfriend, who is away studying in Mexico, the nameless writer steadily crafts his literary efforts - until strange things begin happening around him.